# Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `063386002404`
- **School name**: Rancho Santa Margarita Intermediate
- **Location**: Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688
- **Address**: 21931 Alma Aldea
- **District**: Saddleback Valley Unified (LEAID `0633860`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 33.64326, -117.58904
- **Phone**: (949)459-8253

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,153
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 47
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 29.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Green
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Blue
  - math: Green
  - ela: Green
  - chronic_absent: Orange

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 58.1% proficient — 1,072 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 66.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2024**: chronic absence 11.2% (127 students) [source: ca_dashboard]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.8% (20 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.3% (3 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 7
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 32.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.2% — 147 students
- **English Learners**: 10.9% — 122 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 56 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 48 students
- **Autism**: 26 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,967
- **Federal share**: $1,361
- **State + local share**: $16,606
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,116
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $16,527,429
- **Federal share**: 7.9%
- **State share**: 29.5%
- **Local share**: 62.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,193,686

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $106,130
- **Poverty rate**: 14.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 38.8%
- **Unemployment**: 3.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,300
- **Foreign-born residents**: 24.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.7 miles (EL TORO MARINE CORPS AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 15.06 miles (GRIJALVA PARK EXTENSION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SANTA MARGARITA WATER DISTRICT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Trabuco Mesa Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 9.4% (this school: 11.2%)
- **Robinson Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 7.3% (this school: 11.2%)
- **Trabuco Elementary** — 1.1 mi away, 9.2% (this school: 11.2%)
- **Tijeras Creek Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 8.9% (this school: 11.2%)
- **Melinda Heights Elementary** — 1.8 mi away, 9.7% (this school: 11.2%)

### ela proficiency
- **Trabuco Mesa Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 71.7% (this school: 62.05%)
- **Tijeras Creek Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 71.65% (this school: 62.05%)
- **Arroyo Vista Elementary** — 2.0 mi away, 71.5% (this school: 62.05%)
- **Arroyo Vista Middle** — 2.0 mi away, 75.4% (this school: 62.05%)
- **Philip J. Reilly Elementary** — 3.3 mi away, 72.75% (this school: 62.05%)

### math proficiency
- **Trabuco Mesa Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Tijeras Creek Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Arroyo Vista Middle** — 2.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Philip J. Reilly Elementary** — 3.3 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **Portola Hills Elementary** — 3.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/rancho-santa-margarita-intermediate-rancho-santa-margarita
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/rancho-santa-margarita-intermediate-rancho-santa-margarita/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/rancho-santa-margarita-intermediate-rancho-santa-margarita/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/rancho-santa-margarita-intermediate-rancho-santa-margarita/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/rancho-santa-margarita-intermediate-rancho-santa-margarita/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/rancho-santa-margarita-intermediate-rancho-santa-margarita/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/rancho-santa-margarita-intermediate-rancho-santa-margarita/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/rancho-santa-margarita-intermediate-rancho-santa-margarita/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/rancho-santa-margarita-intermediate-rancho-santa-margarita/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/rancho-santa-margarita-intermediate-rancho-santa-margarita/workforce

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